Google Name Origin

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The name 'Google' originates from a misspelling of 'googol,' a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, coined by Milton Sirotta. It was adopted as the company's name to signify the vast amount of information the search engine could handle.

This chart shows how many babies were given the name Google each year, based on data from the U.S. Government's Social Security Administration (SSA).

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